“It was an awakening of seeing our potential and reaching for it,” Bradley Walden, Emarosa.

Emarosa is no stranger in the post-hardcore and metalcore community. As the band celebrates their 10th anniversary and enters a brand new phrase, they decide to put out a new record to show you what Emarosa is about. We are excited to have the opportunity to talk to frontman, Bradley Walden, on his creative journey and everything in between.

THE EVOLUTION

Dinosaur Journal: So you guys will release of the new album “131” in July! What do you want to communicate with your fans via this album?

Bradley Walden: I think this record shows a great deal of growth and evolution of this band as musicians and people. Fans grow as bands do and this is a very fearless record in showing that we are unapologetically making the music we want.

Dinosaur Journal: Your new record will be Emarosa’s fourth full-length album. When working on new materials, do you always have a central theme to work around, or just go with the flow and depends on what you come up with along the process?

Bradley Walden: With writing, I always seem to go with the flow and write what feels natural. I tend to write melodically first and let the words write themselves. I feel like it’s my subconscious writing what I don’t know how to say yet.

DJ’s Pick: “Helpless” is one of our favorite song in 313. The video features sensational choreography describing a helpless state of mind in a relationship. Walden explains, “This is a song we’ve wanted to release for a long time. It shows some of the farthest reaches we went after on this record. It’s an a absolute favorite and I really wanted to summon my inner Michael Jackson for this one.”

CREATE

Dinosaur Journal: What’s your primary inspiration to create music and what do you want to achieve as a band?

Bradley Walden: Sometimes all a person knows is being creative and expressing themselves through music. At this point in my life, I create because it’s all I know and I want to sustain a happy and peaceful life while doing that. The goal is always to grow and improve.

Bradley Walden: There are no short term or long term goals to me. I make music to help go through things in life that I need to go through. Once you start treating your art as a business you’ve lost the real purpose. There are obvious dreams and such but the goal is to create.

CLOUND NINE

Dinosaur Journal: Why do you pick “Cloud 9” as the first song to share with your fans? What does the song mean?

Bradley Walden: When we handed the record to Hopeless, we told them every song was a single and they could do with it what they liked. ‘Cloud 9’ is a very simple message to be better. No one can make you a better person but yourself.